TEHRAN-- Sorkheh Hesar and Khojir National Parks, located in the capital city of Tehran, are struggling with environmental problems.Due to their distance to the capital, they deal with more problems than other safeguarded areas and national parks under the supervision of the Department of Environment.The existence of travelers, mountaineers, and individuals, along with wildlife smugglers and even stray pet dogs, has made the wildlife in these two areas less safe.The absence of fences and adequate devices, the absence of clear limits of these national forests in addition to the lack of rangers in these locations have triggered numerous problems in these natural resources.Sorkheh Hesar National Park lies with a location of 9,380 hectares and stands at an elevation of 1,547 meters above water level, neighboring Ray - Tehran 20th District.
The entire of this forest park, other than the northeastern part, has actually been handled by the Department of Environment since 1980.
The major part of this territory is a base for migrating birds during winter.Khojir National Park is a safeguarded location in the east of Tehran that covers about 10.013 hectares and has been designated as a National Park since 1982.
Khojir becomes part of the Jajrood Protected Area, which has been chosen as a royal searching ground about 200 years earlier, and in fact, it is the oldest hunting area in the country.Khojir National Park is comprised of high mountains and hilly, and semi-elevated hills.
Iran leading the world in protected areas growthStatistics reveal that the growth rate of protected areas in Iran is higher than in numerous nations so the variety of protected websites in Iran has risen about 37 times compared with 26 times usually in the world from 1962 to 2018.
To preserve the existing biodiversity over the wide geographical expanse of Iran, four types of areas have been designated for conservation and defense, including, national parks, wildlife refuges, protected locations, and natural nationwide monoliths.
In 1997, the Department of Environment (DOE) held supervision over 7,563,983 hectares of such areas.Currently, 30 national parks, 170 safeguarded locations, 45 wildlife havens, and 37 national natural monuments, determining about 19 million hectares in the location remain in the country.According to the most recent research studies, about 1,300 types of vertebrates, consisting of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and marine fish, about 30,000 types of invertebrates, and 8,000 types of plants have actually been determined in the country.The Convention on Biological Diversity predicts that the typical secured location in the world will reach 30 percent of the overall location of a country.
There is 11.6 percent of the protected locations in Iran.
Therefore, the DOE introduced 29 locations with about 700,000 hectares as new locations to the Ministry of Agriculture, however there are some problems.Of course, regardless of all these problems, the rate of Irans secured areas is higher than numerous countries worldwide, or over a 40-year duration, the development of these locations in Iran is higher than the international average, Ali Bali, deputy director of the environments and regional affairs workplace of the DOE said.One of the primary dangers to secured areas is habitat destruction, which might be done by government agencies to execute advancement projects, or in a more limited area by the locals.The next challenge is mining and mining activities.
Mines are the most incompatible activities versus secured locations, poaching is another challenge for secured areas.Drought, dust, human-made, and natural threats such as wildfires are other obstacles that threaten these locations, and on the other hand, the development of villages in or around safeguarded areas also threatens the dynamism of these areas.FB/ MG